The first trailer for War Horse, Steven Spielberg‘s latest Oscar bait epic drama and his first feature film since 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, has just been released and you can view it below along with the official synopsis.

The above picture is a behind-the-scenes image showing director Spielberg and his young star Jeremy Irvine. Based on a 1982 children’s book by Michael Morpurgo and a recent stage adaptation by Nick Stafford, War Horse stars Irvine as Albert, a rural English youth who forges a unbreakable bond with a horse named Joey that he trains. That bond is put to the test as the first World War later consumes England and most of Europe and Albert and Joey find themselves separated by the war.